Dave Heumann

@daveheumann

Musician, Sparrowtail Teas purveyor, Tai Chi instructor, fun dad, pro-democracy, pro-environment, 🚫AI, 🚫crypto. No DMs unless we are already homies! My website that focuses on the first thing:

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Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 1d

Let's have some positive vibes for Count Binface as he faces off against the odious Farage

Count Binface, in an airport or somewhere

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 4d

Today's Meet Up At The Movies was a real good time!

Bobby Weir's head blown up to fill most of the screen in a movie theater. The concert that was filmed and shown was in 1991

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 11d

Last-minute covers gig with Miles at a dock bar scene report

Musical instruments on a patio on a dock bar

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 15d

My favorite part "Depends on my mood" 🤣

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 16d

The way I see it, wildfire haze is good for one thing only, which is making the moon look redder as it rises

A full-looking moon with a decidedly red color rises over foliage and diagonally placed fios lines

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 20d

Had some nice family times eating out back tonight, watching hummingbirds buzz and dart around the lonicera. At points there were as many as four at a time

A "major wheeler" honeysuckle, with red trumpet shaped flowers. They are considered a native species in the eastern USA

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· 28d

A Hey Baltimore quick reminder and heads up that this is about to happen Hail yes, see you

DAVE HEUMANN & MARIE HERRINGTON TACOMA PARK KUTAY SEZGINEL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15

ZISSIMOS BAR

1023 W 36th ST, BALTIMORE

7:30 DOORS / 8:00 SHOW

21+

$10

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Jul 10

We're having Pizza Time tonight and the purple basil out back is great this year

Some purple streaked basil with serrated leaf edges, being held in a human hand and photographed in a kitchen in front of a refrigerator

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Jun 30

Early morning look at how the bee balm's leaves get a dusting of pollen on them after being visited by many bees over the course of a couple weeks Incidentally, I've really only seen bumblebees on them. The honeybees seem to favor the spiderwort and the lavender

Flowers of bee balm, aka wild bergamot, in the early morning light. The leaves below have a dusting of pollen on them that looks a little like powdered sugar

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Jun 29

Got to play what was probably the final set at the final show at the Hampden location of Dangerously Delicious Pies last night with Adam Fisher, a songwriter friend of mine whom I've been recording. Good show!

Several people gathered outdoors in an alleyway at night, mostly seated, with Edison bulbs strung up overhead

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Jun 24

Today and recently

Some "John Clayton" yellow native honeysuckle

A rusty old back fence gate hasp and lock

Reeds in the evening sun. There is one plant that is not a reed, shorter with wider leaves, which is in the middle

A little girl standing in a backyard kiddie pool is looking at the camera with her mouth open. She is holding a red plastic fish and a pink plastic fish and is wearing a slightly oversized blue swim shirt

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Jun 24

A bumbler on the bee balm

Close up of a bumblebee on a bee balm/wild bergamot flower

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Jun 6

Had a real good time playing a show called Nx10 at 2640 space tonight. Here are some texts to a friend where I was telling him about it

I played a show tonight where everyone did 10 minute sets. I used two amps. Played Little Birdie and looped the main thing, a 4 bar loop of just the rhythm and a B chord, then sang over it and added on to the loop after the singing and improvised over it. It felt like about 10 minutes

I did the main part of the loop mono, then the parts I added had stereo ping pong delay

The way I sing Little Birdie is closest to the Roscoe Holcomb version but the lyrics are a composite of different versions

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· May 24

Native plant folks- I'm tryna plant something in edge spaces like these that will keep our soil in place and not have it all get washed into the neighbor's slightly lower plot, after pulling out a bunch of mugwort and other unwanteds. Any suggestions are most welcome thx in advance fam

A patch of soil underneath a fence and next to a downspout extension, in an urban backyard

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· May 7

Good morning, Wild-Grown Da Xue Shan Black Tea #sparrowtailteas

A close up of black and reddish tea leaves

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· May 4

Buzzin yesterday at Cromwell Valley Park, Hampton MD

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· May 1

Good morning! I've released some music today, for your consideration. Liner notes, with alt text, in the screenshots below arbouretum.bandcamp.com/album/chimes...

What started out as me hearing the Byrds version of Dylan's Chimes of Freedom a year or so ago and thinking that I'd like to learn it, quickly became an obsession. I invited David Bergander to come over to play on a session in my home studio in July of 2025, and one of the songs we did was this one. This was was then worked on more meticulously than I'd like to admit over the course of many months, at times left to sit for a while but always returned to. In the winter of 2026, I invited Walker Teret and Marie Herrington to contribute backing vocals, which they did, separately and remotely, and might I add, awesomely.

I worked on The Further Inventions of Big Ten as a parallel process though I started later. It's a reframing of the 10/4 riff from the Dead's Playin' in the Band, as you'll likely recognize. I recorded the initial guitar tracks in the week following the passing of Bob Weir, and I was thinking about it at the time as being a tribute to David Crosby too, whom Bob credited with coming up with the riff at a jam in Mickey Hart's barn in 1970.

I had David Bergander over again in a separate session in the early spring of 2026 to play some percussion, and he played the tambourine and shakers on Chimes and dumbek on Big Ten. He also played the gong you can lightly hear in Chimes, though that was recorded in the first session back in July.

Thank you for listening. Feel the chimes of freedom sounding in your hearts and we will get there.

credits

released May 1, 2026

David Bergander- drums and percussion on side a, dumbek on side b Marie Herrington- backing vocals on side a Walker Teret- backing vocals on side a

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Apr 27

In my feed right now there's a picture of Coretta Scott King directly above a post about King Charles visiting the US and I have to say that I'd pick the person named King over the person who is presently an actual king, for just about anything

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Apr 27

Poison dart frogs at the National Aquarium, 4/27/2026

Two poison dart frogs, dark with electric blue streaks and yellow swatches on their heads, in a simulated rainforest environment consisting of tropical plants, stones, and moss

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Apr 20

Very much looking forward to this show next week in Baltimore at the back bar of Le Comptoir Du Vin I'll be playing and singing acoustic guitar music with an esteemed long time collaborator of mine, Walker Teret. Do come through if you're around!

PEACE IN

THE

VALLEY

* * * April 27

Toshi Makihara/

Peter Redgrave

華

0.1 Grand

Dave Heumann/

Walker Teret

10$

bar open at 7pm - music at 8pm

→

Le Comptoir du Vin

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Apr 20

A not-atypical lunch for me at home: yellow dal w fresh spinach and carrot pickle, with a couple slices of multigrain toast on the side

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Apr 18

Went to Irvine Nature Center. Brilliant place. Glad I picked today to wear this shirt.

Dave Heumann, wearing a Nirvana-influenced Arbouretum shirt, holding a stuffed tree cross-section

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Apr 11

Currently Sherwood Gardensing

At the edge of a plot of tulips. Most here haven't bloomed yet

A plot of tulips in a park, with red-streaked pink, scarlet, and yellow ones

Sunlight shining through conifer branches

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Mar 31

Very much looking forward to opening for the Joan Shelley band, alongside songwriter Grace Rogers. The space, the Design Distillery, is especially cool Ticket link in comment

ESSENTIAL TREMORS

PRESENTS

JOAN SHELLEY

GRACE ROGERS DAVE HEUMANN

MAY 8, 2026

7:00 PM

DESIGN DISTILLERY 1414 KEY HIGHWAY BALTIMORE, MD 21230

$20

TICKETS AT DICE.FM

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Mar 31

My Martin Em-18, almost certainly inspired by Doug Irwin's Wolf guitar he built for Jerry Garcia It came to me with two Mighty Mite humbuckers. I replaced the neck one with a GF dual lipstick, the bridge one with a DM super D, and years later had a strat p/u put in a newly routed middle slot

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Mar 31

Went out back for a quick puff to see the moon, silver and full, sailing through clouds that looked like these

A full moon through pillow stuffing-like clouds. There is a power line in the bottom of the shot, and the top of an outdoor umbrella

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Mar 30

Show Alert! May 8 in Baltimore

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Mar 29

An end-of-concert photo taken at the Kennedy Center, featuring Gail Ann Dorsey, shown in the center. The concert was billed as the "Black Star Orchestra", and featured the music of David Bowie as performed by musicians who had played on his final album, Black Star, sung by three lead singers including Ms Dorsey

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Mar 14

A scale replica of Jerry Garcia's Wolf guitar, on an Oriental rug computer mouse pad, on top of a studio monitor speaker

Dave Heumann@daveheumann· Feb 23

Backyard, just after 6 am